Sonic The Hedgehog: The New Ranger

Hi to all!

This is my project where the world of the Power Rangers joins to Sonic to fight with Dr. Robotnik. You will find new features like new moves, new monitors, new bosses, great music themes and sound effects... but well, it's better to see it by yourself.

In the first video you can see the new story sequence:​

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In that second video you can see the gameplay and some of the features of this game:​

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Thanks for watching and I hope you like it

 

As a fan of Power Rangers and Sonic, I gotta say... LOVE IT!

I myself previously came up with a rudimentary concept for a toku-style Sonic spinoff tentatively called Sonic Beyond. They get power suits that augment their already prodigious powers, and not unlike the '80s cartoon Centurions, they could also augment their suits and various other equipment (vehicles, weapons, et al) with peripheral devices.

 

I really love this concept and it looks awesome. The music is great too! Like I said on YT I only have one nitpick really and that is to change the palette (or art) of Sparkling Zone as it looks too dull. I also suggest changing the Power icon to the Blue Ranger's helmet, and then it will be perfect IMO.

 

Thanks for your comments. About the Sparkling zone, yeah, you are right, as you can see I didn't edited any of the level art so maybe in the future I can try to add more "shinny" stuff to it or if someone wants to colaborate it will be welcome too...

About the Ranger icon in the monitor, if you look carefully, when Sonic morphs it uses the Green Ranger costume (although it is blue like Sonic ), so the monitor icon is the Green Ranger Helmet painted in blue too.

 

Man, I'm really glad that you're still using those songs I made for you. I laugh infinitely when I listened to the Toejam & Earl's theme in Marble Zone. I really LOVED, LOVED the new songs, the improvements and the additional material. The different Super Sonic and The Power Ranger hability makes this project into something fucking great!!

 

The different Super Sonic also impressed me. I just want to see some level art editing, which could make your hack even more impressive. I loved all the features, this hack is impressively gorgeous!! Gorgeous!

 

Well I've never been a fan of Power Rangers a whole lot, but this does look pretty cool.It's the original Might Morphin', right? And I like how you used the SegaSonic the Hedgehog Arcade Title Screen Animation. and nice use of the Space Harrier Theme in Star City (otherwise known as the Sonic Retro splash jingle). and HA Mecha Sonic is a generic enemy. And Super Sonic is awesome except you need to make HIM yellow instead of yellow sparkles, and you should change the Super Sonic theme into GO! GO! POWER RANGERS!. This hack seems awesome and i can't wait to play it.


EDIT: Are all of the bosses in this game besides the checker-wrecking ball just dropping blocks?

 

First Video: Segascreen is impressive, did you do that?. The intro is alright, a nit pick of mine, if sonic was moving in the custscene like how sonic 3k does it. That title animation looks cool, but sonic looks a tad out of place, like too cartoonie.

Second Video: Green hill zone obviously needs a layout change, as well as others which you've seem to slightly edit in places I see. I always found this concept funny, however it is original. There are some tracks that are a little generic now, and some that I haven't heard. If you can change those generic common tracks it would be better. Now the bosses: Syz just a layout change so yeah, Slz, can you not hit him when rolling? if so then thats an interesting challenge. I was not expecting Silver Sonic! that did catch me off gaurd!. If you could add mecha Sonic afterwards (I know you made him as a generic enemy which was disappointing), that would be pretty cool before fighting the final boss.

Do those falling blocks mini boss thing only happen when you collect at least one emerald? and if its the same thing from what I see that will get boring very quickly. The Power morpher things looks well done, maybe even better than the last time I saw it, its basically Chaos Blast. Is Super Sonic ment to be blue? or is it that you haven't done the palcyling yet?.

All in all, its quite impressive what's been done. I think the main thing now is to give us something new to play, as in level layouts to be edited more and maybe some art as well for the actual FG and not some of the common SCAA art I see you use here.

 

I see good stuff here. This hack definitely has a unique touch, keep going.

I'll agree on the palettes though, they're often in the greyish tones, more colours would be welcome.

 

Thanks to all for the comments. I will try to answer to all, so let's go.

"Eduardo Knuckles": Thanks, it's good to see you like it and you enjoyed watching and hearing the videos. About the art, yeah, that's a possibillity and maybe I will try to change in the future.

"XtremerSadiqX": Thanks! About Super Sonic, I did it like that intentionally. Sonic is still blue because it only uses 6 emeralds and haven't enought power to be the real Super Sonic. About the Super Sonic theme it's not the final song I will use there, same as some of other songs that are actually in my game...
About that "block attack", it is Lord Zedd attacking Sonic because he wants the Chaos emeralds, but that is no the boss of the level, Robotnik will appear in all acts 3 of the game like always.

"Animemaster": Sega screen is an awesome work. The main concept and design was created by me, but fully coded by Vladikcomper. I edited it here and there to create this final version and that's the result, great, eh? About the story, well, it's based in static images so Sonic will not move... I don't understand very well your feeling about the tittle screen, I think it looks really nice.
Green Hill? Well... as you can see it's Green Hill, ha, ha, so I didn't touched too much that layout intentionally. About the songs, as I said before to "XtremerSadiqX" not all the songs are the final songs and some of them will be changed.
Star City boss (Star Light) is a bit more challenging than the original one, yeah, you can't hit him rolling, so you have to use the spiked balls to hit him or, as you can see in the video, using the Power Ranger morphing move. Silver Sonic was a nice plus in Sonic 2 and I wanted to see it here. You will have to hit it a lot more times than in Sonic 2 Yes, Mecha Sonic is only a Badnik here, it would be great to fight with it after Silver Sonic.
About the "block attack", yes, if Sonic have at least one emerald, Lord Zedd will attack him with this blocks. If you don't have any emerald, that block attack will not happen. That blocks are more difficult in the lasts levels that in the first ones, that attack only happens for a while and then you can continue playing the level.
About Super Sonic, well, I supose you had read what I said to "XtremerSadiqX"... so you have the answer there.
There are a lot of great edits of Badniks and objects, pay more attention lool

"SpirituInsanum": Thanks for your kind words. I will work a bit more with the palettes

 

I don't know, in the beginning of the video it said "new special stages", although the layout isn't changed at all. :S

Did you consider changing the level layouts? To be honest I don't have enough motivation to play through the same levels again and again while knowing the level layout even in my sleep. :/

 

Well, the 6 special stages with the emeralds are the same, I coudn't show the new special stages stuff due to the 15 minutes limit of video, but after that 6 special stages you still can enter to the special stage to collect more continues and lives and here will be when you can see the new special stages plus one that can be selected in the level select menu that is based on the casino bonus stage layout of Sonic & Knuckles.

About the level layouts... only Green Hill zone has the same layout (it has only very minor changes), but all the other levels has a lot of changes to make them enjoyables. Although they still aren't final versions yet I can asure they have a lot of great changes

 

It's looking good, I'm actually looking forward to playing this. I do like the Power Ranger idea. Especially that (it looks like) you've taken everything into account.

Is it just me, or is Super Sonic... blue?

 

Yep, Super Sonic IS blue. I think he already explained why, but I am not sure...

 

Oh... Yes, I explained it before, but maybe I didn't explained well... I did this Super Sonic intentionally blue because it's a different version of Super Sonic we all meet. He only have 6 emeralds here, so this is a "light Super Sonic version". Other difference you can see is that when this Super Sonic runs at fast speed or when standing, he looks like always and not with the Super Sonic spikes as we can see in Sonic 2 or in Sonic 3...

 

Ah right, makes sense. Maybe you should change the text when you get all 6 emeralds.

 

Why? What do you mean?

 

Any word on a release?

 

Why? What do you mean?

Per example: "There's only one more for you to be the perfect one"

 

This looks amazing! I was a big fan of Power Rangers back when I was 2 in 1999. In other news, happy birthday Ed.

 

wow I am incredibly impressed , not many hacks released nowerdays compare in epicness to yours here i applaud you and will be downloading as soon as there is a release , I shall be following this thread for updates


keep on hacking

kind regards

pivot